In this section, we empirically evaluate the performance of CALM on AirDialogue [1]}. We first show that CALM outperforms the SOTA on the AirDialogue dataset by around \(7\%\)  in the standard simulated evaluation protocol proposed by [2]}, which prior work denotes as “self-play" (see Appendix ), and this matches human-level performance as reported by [1]}.
Beyond this, we also perform a comprehensive set of ablation studies to validate the necessity of each component of CALM.
